Period 2 (LA 8-8) ODYSSEY READING SCHEDULE 5/22/12 1. 20 minutes silent reading of the ODYSSEY (Adventures of Ulysses) - should be on the "Calypso" chapter p. 115 2. 20 minutes of group projects 5/18/12 1. SILENT reading of "The Cattle of the Sun" (96-105)
2. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW: "The Cattle of the Sun" 5/17/12 1. Quiz on "Circe" and "Land of the Dead"
2. TWO more stories
3. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW: “The Wandering Rocks” & “The Sirens” & “Scylla and Charybdis” 5/16/12 1. Silent reading (finish "Circe" complete "Land of the Dead")
2. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW - Land of the Dead
5/15/12 1. "Circe" (first half quiz)
2. Let's hear a story or two
3. Golden Ratio projects (anyone ready?)
4. ODYSSEY group/topic organization
HW: "Circe" (2nd half) 59 - 70 5/14/12 1. "Cyclops" AND "Keeper of the Winds" quizzes (only one of them will 'count')
- EARTH AND GREEN (by Mark Rothko...one of my favorite painters...believe it or not):
3. RESEARCH
In groups, read up on the following topics (I'm not providing you with links...there is information all over the place).
Select material that is 'just right' for you to understand and explain
Be able to provide the class with a 5 minute explanation (using web sites for visuals) about your topic.
Some topics will have two groups working on it.
A. The Golden Ratio in ART. B. The Golden Ratio in ARCHITECTURE. C. The Golden Ratio in HUMANS. D. The Golden Ratio in NATURE. E. The Golden Ratio in MUSIC, LITERATURE, and FILMS. F. The Fibonacci Numbers (Sequence) and their 'usefulness.'
HW: Do not forget to read about"The Cyclops’ Cave" in The Odyssey. 5/8/12 Themes in JUAN:
Art must be "true."
Slavery can mean 'serving.'
We all serve or are a 'slave' to SOMETHING or SOMEBODY. (controversial?...I stand by my statement.)
Art Characteristics:
Requires imagination
Demonstrates an effort to create something new
Allows us to express our understanding in ways that could not be expressed otherwise
THE ‘color patch,’ IMPRESSIONISM, POINTISLLISM (19th Century) - characteristics? Manet - The Fifer Monet - The River Seurat - Side Show
Bonus: Compare/Contrast Monet’sThe River with Seurat’sGrande Jatte. 5/4/12 1. JUAN finale.
2. Stories. 5/3/12
1. Chapter 12
2. JUAN!
Pope Innocent X
3. My picture taken with JUAN!
4. Chapter 13.
HW - finish I, Juan de Pareja! 5/2/12
1. The masterpiece of Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)...
Perhaps find a better version online so that you can zoom in
QUESTIONS (some things to add to your 'Art' Googledoc which we'll be coming back to):
1. What is 'happening' in this painting?
2. How is it 'Baroque'?
3. How is atypical (NOT typical) of a 'normal' portrait?
4. What makes it so complex? (Unless you think it isn't!) Consider --
lighting
framing...where our eyes are directed
pictures within pictures
STUDY it awhile
2. Chapters 10 & 11
3. HW: 12 & 13 5/1/12
1. Chapters 8 & 9
2. Stories
HW: chapters 10 & 11 4/30/12 1. Chapters 6 and 7
2. Stories
HW: chapters 8 & 9 4/27/12 1. Chapters 4 and 5
2. STORY TIME
HW: chapters 6 & 7 4/26/12 1. Chapter 4 and 5 quiz tomorrow. (Chapters 4, 5, and 6 may use lap tops to prepare lessons).
2. The rest of the class: SILENT reading of I, Juan de Pareja. 4/25/12 1. Juan: Chapter 3
Quiz
Summary / Discussion
Key Passages
Theme
2. Art
RENAISSANCE vs.
BAROQUE
calm
rest
beautiful
balanced
classical
active
motion
natural
jagged
'modern'
THE BAROQUE (roughly 1600 - 1750) - characteristics of this this period?
Vermeer- Woman Holding a Balance Velázquez- The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)
HW: CHAPTER 4 QUIZ 4/20/12
1. Juan: Chapter 2
Quiz
Summary / Discussion
Key Passages
Theme
2. Art
RENAISSANCE vs.
BAROQUE
calm
rest
beautiful
balanced
classical
active
motion
natural
jagged
'modern'
THE BAROQUE (roughly 1600 - 1750) - characteristics of this this period? Vermeer- Woman Holding a Balance Velázquez- The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)
WEEKEND BONUS - Compare and contrast in a paragraph or so, two DAVIDS: Michelangelo's (Renaissance) vs. Bernini's (Baroque) Share it with mfc3067@gmail.com. Name it in the usual format: 88campbellDAVID. 4/19/12 1. Juan: Chapter 1
Quiz
Summary / Discussion
Key Passages
Theme
2. Art pieces: THE RENAISSANCE (roughly the 1500’s) - characteristics of the ‘world view’ during this period? Leonardo - Mona Lisa Michelangelo -The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel), The Pieta, David
THE BAROQUE (roughly the 1600 - 1650) - characteristics of this this period? Caravaggio - The Calling of Saint Matthew Rembrandt -Night Watch Vermeer- The Letter / Woman Holding a Balance
HW: Juan, chapter 2 quiz 1. Story presentations
2. According to reading schedule you should be on CHAPTER 3 of I, Juan de Pareja.
2a. I, Juan de Pareja INTRODUCTION - Open a new GoogleDocuent and paste the following questions into it. (Use the following format: 88cashART. Don't share it yet.)
What is ART?
Give examples of what you would consider to be ART. Explain why.
What is the purpose of ART? Why do people create ART?
3. According to art 'experts': Characteristics of ART (also to be pasted)
4. Begin keeping a list of art pieces we view and your comments (or class members' comments)
THE RENAISSANCE (roughly the 1500’s) - characteristics of the ‘world view’ during this period?
Leonardo - Mona Lisa Michelangelo -The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel), The Pieta, David
HW: I, Juan de Pareja reading schedule 1. I, Juan de Pareja teaching project explanation.
HW: Juan foreward and chapter 1 (pages 3 - 16) 4/2/12 & 4/3/12 & 4/4/12 1. All stories should HAVE BEEN shared LONG AGO with mfc3067@gmail.com and should be formatted as 88shuppaGENRE.
2. Story presentations??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
3. Easy Grammar exercise:
page 301/303
page 305/307
page 309/311
page 313/315
3/30/12 1. 15 minutes to finalize your stories.
2. Follow all instructions for formatting as described on 3/29/12.
3. Begin oral presentations of your stories. 3/29/12 1. GENRE STORIES
2 - 3 pages. 12 point 'normal' font. double spaced
Fits into one of these genres: realistic fiction, fantasy, mystery, history/autobiographical
Must include strong story 'elements': plot, character, setting
2. COMPLETION
All stories will be shared ALOUD (either you or someone you select will deliver a verbal reading)
All stories should be shared with mfc3067@gmail.com and should be formatted as 88kemmerergGENRE.
3. EVALUATION - Stories will be scored in the following areas
Strength of the story elements: plot, character, setting (scored by me)
Strength of your style and technique as a writer (scored by me)
Strength of your mastery of writing mechanics such as grammar punctuation and spelling (scored by me)
Strength of its INTEREST LEVEL (scored by the class)
3/28/12 1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. STORY WRITING? 2/7/12 & 2/8/12
1. Visit Study Island and earn yourselves BLUE RIBBONS on the 9th GRADE (that's right, 9th GRADE) language arts /ELA / English/ reading lessons.
2. Each 9th grade blue ribbon will be worth 10 points for your language arts grade.
3. I would have inserted the exact link, but Study Island is sort of like Fort Knox. Retrieving a password and username for a bank account (which may or may not contain money) is easier than retrieving Study Island info (through which someone might steal some multiple choice answers.) Sorry for the inconvenience, but you all know how to log on. May the ribbons be with you. 2/2/12 1. A Text Twist competition within your usual Text Twist groups. Display highest score to your teacher for academic credit. 2/1/12 1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. Perfect tenses review: complete p. 175
3. Progressive tense (p.177) is much easier to understand, but my guide explaining verb tenses might still be useful.
Complete grammar pages 179 & 181 1/27/12 & 1/30/12 & 1/31/12 1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. Perfect tenses were explained on grammar p. 169
3. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions. 1/26/12 BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions. 1/25/12 1. 8th Grade Class Trip $$$
2. BOOK TALK preparation.
Catchy opening (complete this last if you are stuck)
Limit your talk to the main characters (why? how many?)
Limit your talk to the main plot (why?)
Include 5 - 10 MAJOR plot points/events (can't be TOO detailed. Why not?)
Wrap it up with definite conclusion.
3. BOOK TALK PRACTICE
In groups of three...
Speaker should stand and face the 'audience' of two. (Just like last time we practiced).
1/24/12 1. 12 ANGRY MEN quiz.
2. Work on writing out what will go into your BOOK TALKS. Here's the way they should sound to your audience:
Catchy opening (complete this last if you are stuck)
Limit your talk to the main characters (why? how many?)
Limit your talk to the main plot (why?)
Include 5 - 10 MAJOR plot points/events (can't be TOO detailed. Why not?)
Wrap it up with definite conclusion.
3. Write out the book talk in a GoogleDoc as if it is a speech (1 - 2 pages).
HW: Complete WRITTEN version of the book talk. 1/23/12 STUDY ISLAND math. 1/20/12 STUDY ISLAND testing. If perchance you finish, look at the period 1 schedule. 1/17 - 1/19 12 ANGRY MEN
Chart the background and personality of EACH of the 12. Are they all really angry? Why do they vote as they do?
More and more facts about the case emerge as the film progresses; more and more details about the characters emerge also.
HW: Remember. You should be reading your novel in preparation for next week's BOOK TALKS!
ALSO: Open 'note' quiz on 12 ANGRY MEN on Monday, the 23rd.
1/13/12 1. IMPROMPTU SPEECHES
2. PERFECT TENSES: A guide for you that explains verb tenses. Refer to it often...if you want to.
pages 171/173
1/12/12 1. GRAMMAR: Review simple tenses and complete 165 and 167
2. PERFECT TENSES: A guide for you that explains verb tenses. Refer to it often...if you want to.
3. IMPROMPTU SPEECHES 1/11/12 GRAMMAR: Verb tenses = 'time' or 'when the action occurred"
SIMPLE TENSES
Past - no helping verb (158)
Present - no helping verb (157)
Future - 'will' or 'shall' + present tense OR 'is going to' or 'am going to' 159)
Complete 161/163/165
IMPROMPTU TALKS (25 points)
Select a random topic from the box (If you don't like it, pick another. BUT you're stuck with that one).
If you go OFF track or stall...CLASS raise hands and the timer stops.
Continue speaking and the timer re-starts
2 minutes of speaking = A / 1 minute = B / trying = C
HW: Continue reading your novel for the book talks which begin on January 23rd. 1/10/12 IMPROMPTU TALKS (25 points)
Select a random topic from the box (If you don't like it, pick another. BUT you're stuck with that one).
If you go OFF track or stall...CLASS raise hands and the timer stops.
Continue speaking and the timer re-starts
2 minutes of speaking = A / 1 minute = B / trying = C
HW: Continue reading your novel for the book talks which begin on January 23rd. 1/9/12
1. Individually or in groups, attain the high score in each quiz to receive academic credit:
1/6/12 1. VOCAB supplementary assignment - Locate 18 "Challenge Words" (in boxes) for Lesson 3 and 4 vocab.
Define words
Write a sentence that is CLEARLY about something from class or someone/something you know I know about!
- WORTH 20 points. (Many of you need it.) - Due Monday 1//9/12 (share in a GoogleDoc with mfc3067@gmail.com: 88laudonefVOCAB. Allow me editing rights.)
you can use the letter keys on the laptop to unscramble words (TIMED VERSION)
no other aids allowed to find words other than your own brilliance
if you achieve a high enough score in a round OR figure out the big word at the end, you advance.
TEAM with the HIGHEST SCORE in any given game receives 10 class participation points.
Yesterday's Winners: Kevin, Dan, Garrett, Dylan
HW: TITLE and AUTHOR of your book for the BOOK TALK 1/4/12 1. Exchange your vocab quiz with a partner (or two). Take each other's quiz without referring to the worksheets. Score it.
you can use the letter keys on the laptop to unscramble words
no other aids allows to find words other than your own brilliance
if you achieve a high enough score in a round OR figure out the big word at the end, you advance
TEAM with the HIGHEST SCORE in any given game receives 5 BONUS points on tomorrow's vocab test.
HW: STUDY vocab lessons 3 and 4 1/3/12 1. Book Talk Assignment - refer to handout / Talks begin January 23rd (tentatively)
2. Vocab lessons 3 and 4 review - In a GoogleDoc, create a 10 question quiz that you will 'share' with a classmate for him/her to complete. Questions should be in the format of 'fill in the blank' sentences with various vocab words as the multiple choice answers.
HW - create vocab review quiz / Real Vocab test for you is on Thursday 1/5/12. 12/21/11 1. Colors presentations:
CREATIVITY
EFFORT
PRESENTATION
NEATNESS
2. Vocab exercises 4A, 4B, and 4C
HW: "Colors" grade proposals 12/20/11 1. Grammar Test
2. Review exercises 3A, 3B, and 3C
3. Colors presentations: Grade proposals due Thursday...
CREATIVITY
EFFORT
PRESENTATION
NEATNESS
12/19/11 1. Read vocab words for lesson 4 beginning on page 22 and complete exercises 4A, 4B, and 4C
2. Grammar test tomorrow:
prepositional phrases
subjects
verbs
direct objects (D.O.)
predicate nominative (P.N.)
predicate adjective (P.A.)
3. Work on COLORS project - also due tomorrow 12/16/11 1. Greek and Latin Lessons 3 & 4: All or Nothing
Lesson 3: pages 16 - 19
Complete exercises 3A, 3B, and 3C: pages 19, 20, and 21
2. Colors
HW: One page grammar test Monday:
prepositional phrases
subjects
verbs
direct objects (D.O.)
predicate nominative (P.N.)
predicate adjective (P.A.)
12/15/11 1. GRADE Grammar pages 153 & 155 (too much random underlining...TEST early next week)
2. COLORS project. Do you know...
how long it is supposed to be?
what you will be graded on?
how many points it is worth?
when it is due?
what that sheet of paper (which I explained) is for?
12/14/11 1. Grammar HW 149 & 151
2. Please carefully read the "COLORS" instructions distributed yesterday
If using GarageBand or Keynote, you may save to your server
Art supplies (paper, colored pencils, markers, glue sticks, etc.) are available
HW: grammar pages 153 & 155 12/13/11
1. RESEARCH, READ, and be prepared to EXPLAIN the following groups of concepts.
- Each group will be responsible for explaining ONE of the following sets:
-----> "BEAT Generation" / "BEAT Poets" / BEATniks
-----> Sigmund Freud / "Free Association" technique / Stream of Consciousness
-----> Improvisation and "Free-Form" (in Jazz and Poetry)
-----> Word Jazz / Ken Nordine / "Colors"
2. LISTEN to sample "COLORS"
- How is or isn't each example poetic?
- What does each one mean? Or is there no meaning?
3. EXPLANATION of your "COLORS" project
- refer to the sheet to understand the guidelines / rubric.
4. HW: Grammar page 149 & 151 (ALSO label D.O. and P.N. and P.A. if you find them).
COLORS PROJECT DUE Tuesday, 12/20/11 12/12/11 1. COLORS "QUIZ"
- take the quiz (questions become increasingly difficult)
- grade them as a class
2. RESEARCH, READ, and be prepared to EXPLAIN the following groups of concepts.
- Each group will be responsible for explaining ONE of the following sets:
-----> "BEAT Generation" / "BEAT Poets" / BEATniks
-----> Sigmund Freud / "Free Association" technique / Stream of Consciousness
-----> Improvisation and "Free-Form" (in Jazz and Poetry)
-----> Word Jazz / Ken Nordine / "Colors"
3. LISTEN to sample "COLORS"
- How is or isn't each example poetic?
- What does each one mean? Or is there no meaning?
4. EXPLANATION of your "COLORS" project
- refer to the sheet to understand the guidelines / rubric. 12/9/11
1. Review yesterday's GRAMMAR.
2. Complete page 149 & 151 (ALSO label D.O. and P.N. and P.A. if you find them). 12/8/11 1. GRAMMAR: Subject-Verb agreement and p. 147
2. Click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to. We are finished as of today.
3. Bug's Life (questions INCLUDING paragraph) due FRIDAY. Share it as 88strakertBUGSLIFE. (Add BONUS jokes to this document if you've found any). 12/7/11 1. Click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to. We MAY finish today.
2. Bug's Life (questions INCLUDING paragraph) due FRIDAY. Share it as 88silvakBUGSLIFE. 12/5/11 1. Compound subjects:
If joined by and, they're plural: Christa and Jack are friendly with each other.
If joined by or, make the verb agree with the nearer subject
---------------> The good saxophonists or Christa is staying at East Hills.
---------------> Either Christa or the good saxophonists are invited to participate in the PMEA.
page 145
2. Yes, there is an assignment that goes with A Bug's Life; click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to.
3. Pixar films are renowned for appealing to both children and adults. As a BONUS (added to you responses to the movie questions), compile a list of JOKES that you KNOW weren't aimed at younger children. There are many 'insect' jokes or jokes in the 'city scene' that are truly aimed at adults (13 years or older). See how many you can catch and list. 12/2/11 1. No grammar today, but we will finish up the read alouds.
The stories we've heard so far have been well written, but unfortunately creating believable CHARACTERS is very difficult...even for fledgling writers who are burgeoning. MOST of the stories revolved around 'events'...either in the form of a bloodbath OR a series of inside jokes. However, the plot structures have been very solid.
In continuing with this "fooled by appearances" theme ("The Lie", the poems we discussed) AND your own stories, we will view a classic from around the time you were born: A BUG'S LIFE. Not only does the film feature well developed characters, it also features a well constructed plot.
2. Yes, of course there is an assignment that goes with it; click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to.
3. Pixar films are renowned for appealing to both children and adults. As a BONUS (added to you responses to the movie questions), compile a list of JOKES that you KNOW weren't aimed at younger children. There are many 'insect' jokes or jokes in the 'city scene' that are truly aimed at adults (13 years or older). See how many you can catch and list.
WEEKEND BONUS...Available to EVERYONE (not just Megan Eltringham): The plot of A Bug's Life is not unique. Write a paragraph that compares the storyline of this children's movie to two other films: SEVEN SAMURAI (a Japanese film by Akira Kurowawa that is known as one of the greatest films EVER made) and also THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (an American Western film from 1960). 12/1/11 1. Subject - Verb Agreement 139
Most plural nouns end in 'S' (cows eat)
And most singular verbs end in 'S' (cow eats)
141
2. Read 'alouds' of your narrative masterpieces 11/30/11 1. Check all four poem questions (HW)
2. Discussion of "Willow and Ginkgo" and "Sea Lullaby"
3. Read 'alouds' of your narrative masterpieces
11/29/11 1. An extra 5% available to those authors willing to deliver a verbal reading of their stories. (But some of you have yet to submit your stories!)
(These discussion questions will take a bit longer).
HW: all poetry questions completed (to be checked) 11/22/11 1. An extra 5% available to those authors willing to deliver a verbal reading of their stories (beginning next week).
(These first two poems could be completed relatively quickly.) 11/18/11 1. Action vs. Linking verbs
review 129 & 133
complete p. 137
2. In order to help us learn to read more deeply and 'in between the lines,' we will examine some poetry from the literature book and answer some discussion questions:
"Moco Limping" (p. 127)
"Mixed Singles" (p. 128)
"Willow and Ginkgo" (p. 132)
"Sea Lullaby" (p. 133)
3. Share your stories (86eltringhammSTORY) with mfc3067@gmail.com and also with THREE other students. These students should have access to add comments, questions, and suggestions.
HW: Completed stories with peer comments in the GoogleDoc margins due Monday. 11/17/11
1. Action verbs vs. Linking verbs.
read page 124 (forms of the verb TO BE)
read page 125 (list of LINKING verbs....which sometimes are ACTION verbs)
read pages 126, 127, and 131
----> Words that come afterLINKING VERBS can be PREDICATE NOMINATIVES or PREDICATE ADJECTIVES.
----> Words that come after ACTION VERBS can be DIRECT OBJECTS (D.O. - remember?)
complete page 129 (Predicate Nominatives)
complete page 133 (Predicate Adjectives)
2. Finish drafting your stories (yes, you are getting more time to write)
HW: a completed draft of your stories due Friday 11/18. (You WILL eventually be sharing them with three classmates for comments/suggestions)
LITERATURE BOOKS NEEDED FRIDAY 11/16/11
1. Supplemental grammar sheets: exercises 10, 7, and 13.
2. Last class day to work on your narrative accounts (stories).
HW: a completed draft of your stories due Friday 11/18. 11/15/11 1. All Spartacus essays shared?
2. Continue with grammar 'tricky verbs' from yesterday:
Grammar p. 123 and supplemental ex. 10 on the back (lie vs. lay)
supplemental sheet (exercises 7 and 13)
3. Your narrative accounts (originally based on "The Lie"...but altered, accentuated, and enhanced as you see fit) are taking shape in GoogleDocs? Title them like this: 88faulconaSTORY. 11/14/11 1. SPARTACUS essays shared with mfc3067@gmail.com
2.Tricky verbs
---> sit vs. set (p. 117)
---> rise vs. raise (p. 118)
---> lie vs. lay (p. 119) - The trickiest of the three pairs
(The forms of SIT, RISE, and LIE will NOT be followed by a D.O.)
Grammar p. 121 (lie/lay sit/set rise/raise)
Grammar p. 123 and supplemental sheet exercise 10 (lie vs. lay)
supplemental sheet (exercise 7 and exercise 13)
3. Now that we have laptops we can continue with the writing assignment from WAY back in September (the 26th). Recall and reuse this narrative account document to help you continue your stories.
Begin drafting/transferring your writing into a GoogleDoc (for sharing purposes)
Remember the story elements: CONFLICT, RISING ACTION, CLIMAX, and RESOLUTION
And from our Groundhog Day study, create good 'characters.' (dynamic and well-rounded)
11/11/11 - best wishes
- Irregular verb quiz
- Direct objects (grammar 113 & 115)
- Final day for Spartacus vs. Harriet essay (see 11/1 and 11/3 for details) - Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, including peer comments, and shared with me) due: MONDAY 11/14/11 11/10/11 1. SPARTACUS finale. (Why wouldn't Spartacus take the pirates' offer to get him out of Italy before the big battle? Why would anyone say "I'm Spartacus"?)
2. PAST PARTICIPLEShave a helping verb. And just what are those helping verbs? (review p. 97 & 98)
3. DIRECT OBJECTS - receive the action of an action verb.
----> ex. Alexis shook the hand of her boxing opponent after the bout.
- complete p. 113 & 115
11/9/11 - grammar 107 & 109
- SPARTACUS: Crassus makes a deal with Batiatus ($$$) to identify Spartacus. The stage is set for battle.
- IRREGULAR VERB quiz Friday (study pages 97 & 98) - Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, and including peer comments) due: MONDAY 11/14/11 11/7/11
- grammar p. 105 review
- by special request: SPARTACUS film (I made some errors when I 'retold' the ending, and some of the plot may help your Spartacus/Harriet essays. - Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, and including peer comments) due: MONDAY 11/14/11
HW tonight: grammar p. 107 and 109 (the numbers are missing so 107 ("In July...) and 109 ("The bestseller...")
GRAMMAR QUIZ coming on Friday 11/11/11: make sure you know the PAST and PAST PARTICIPLES of irregular verbs (page 97 &98) 11/4/11
- Review homework (grammar p. 103)
- Grammar p. 105
- Continue drafting SPARTACUS and HARRIET (refer to yesterday's instructions and the .pdf rubric)
How the PSSA writing rubric translates into almighty GRADES:
4 = A = 95
3 = B = 85
2 = C = 75
1 = :( = :( 11/3/11
1. Review grammar concepts CONTRACTIONS and VERB PHRASES:
- pages 85, 87, and 91
2. PRESENT TENSE vs. PAST TENSE verbs
- What's the difference?
- A similarity: NO HELPING VERBS.
3. REGULAR vs. IRREGULAR verbs (read page 94 and 95)
- 'ed' vs. a different form
- One of the wonders of verbs: they are the only kinds of words that change their form in order tell WHEN something happened. (This is an EASY way to tell if you're working with a verb
4. PAST vs. PAST PARTICIPLE (pages 97 and 98)
- no helping verb vs. 'have,' 'has,', or 'had'
5.SPARTACUS and HARRIET essays: When complete share your piece with at least TWO other classmates. Their gmail address should be easy to figure out:
88 last name, first initial.
Read the pieces and INSERT comments and suggestions (at least three comments per reader): what is good? what could be added? what should be corrected? what is confusing?
The writers of the piece should then make corrections and changes based on what their peers have suggested.
11/2/11 Past grammar sheets you should keep - 4, 13, 17, 23, 26, 27, 31, 35, 41 EASY GRAMMAR - begin verbs unit!
- page 81 & 88 (what a verb is AND the list of helping verbs)
- page 83 & 87 (contractions)
- page 89 & 91 (verb phrases)
Begin drafting SPARTACUS essay as explained on 11/1/11.
GoogleDoc format: 86jonestSPARTACUS. (COPY AND PASTE into a GOOGLE DOC. No need to share it with me yet though.)
11/1/11 Spartacus vs. Harriet Tubman: Write an essay of 200 - 400 words that compares (same) and contrasts (different) the historical figures of Spartacus and Harriet Tubman.
- No additional research is needed beyond the film and excerpt from the red book.
- Some similarities (leader of slaves) and differences (gender, race, time period) are obvious.
- Look deeper however. Consider for example...
the type of people they led... ie. How are the slaves the same or different from each other?
their method of leadership
how they operated or how they were organized
their ultimate goals
what the laws and governments were like at the time
the people against whom they were struggling or 'fighting'
10/28/11 Spartacus characters (so far) Spartacus - the main slave Varinia - the slave girl Batiatus - the slave trader (seems primarily interested in money) Crassus - a patrician (which a member of the 'noble family' class in Rome and loves 'old' Rome. He's the guy who brought the people to set up the fight to the death match at Batiatus' place) Gracchus - A senator. He is not ashamed of how 'amoral' he is. The enemy of Crassus.
10/27/11 - Harriet Tubman vs. Spartacus
Create a chart: one column for their "Similarities" and the other for their "Differences" OR
Use one of things with the overlapping circles
VOCAB BONUS DUE FRIDAY if interested. 10/26/11 - Work on VOCAB bonus assignment explained yesterday AND/OR - Silent reading.
BONUS OPPORTUNITY: - Locate 23 "Challenge Words" (in boxes) for Lesson 2 vocab - Define words - Write a sentence that is CLEARLY your own for each word - WORTH 12 points added onto Vocab test. - Due Friday 10/28 (share with mfc3067@gmail.com in a GoogleDoc. Allow me editing rights.) ex. 86feithjVOCBONUS. 10/24/11 - Harriet Tubman completed? - Review for vocab test - Google account setup (example): 86alpaughw@gmail.com HW: - Write 10 question vocab quiz (multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank) - If completed in GoogleDocs, share it with a classmate and also mfc3067@gmail.com - Title it 86alpaughwVOCAB except use your name. - Study for Greek/Latin vocab test 10/21/11
- Cunningham absent
10/20/11 - Vocab test moved to Monday - "Harriet Tubman" (550 - 559) and accompanying 'quiz' 10/19/11 - Greek & Latin vocab: Lesson 2 - Complete exercises 2A, 2B, 2C - "Harriet Tubman" (p. 550 - 559) HW: Vocab test on Greek/Latin lessons 1 and 2 (FRIDAY) 10/18/11 - Wonderlic Test - Multiple Intelligences Theory - Greek and Latin Vocab: Lesson 2 10/14/11 & 10/17/11 - Read "Playing for Keeps" (500 - 504) CLASS: Answer "Playing for Keeps" questions 1 - 11 HW: "What is intelligence" prompt. Answer completely and thoughtfully as possible.
10/13/11 - GROUNDHOG DAY packets submitted - Greek and Latin Lesson #1: complete 1A, 1B, 1C - "Playing for Keeps" (page 500) - questions 1 & 2
10/12/11 - Complete Groundhog Day film - All questions (#1 - #15), completed, stapled submitted - Greek and Latin (Vocab Lesson #1: Numbers) *NOTE: 'narrative account' assignment on hold (the expectation was that we'd have laptop computers) 10/11/11 - Groundhog Day: "day 3" HW - complete more of #6 / and also #7 through #11 10/7/11 - "page 1" of your story - using the lit book (p. 813)...answer Groundhog Day question #5. - Groundhog Day: "day 2" HW: none 10/6/11 - the importance of CHARACTERIZATION in stories (including yours) - GROUNDHOG DAY: text to film connection?
HW: - complete 1 - 4 Groundhog Day AND - write 1 page worth of YOUR story
10/3/11 - Discussion of Fairytale compenents - Begin mapping out your own narrative
9/30/11
- grammar test scores
- Completions of LIE and FAIRYTALE "analysis" 9/28/11
- Check HW...quick review for TEST - TAKE the 100 points test - Begin NARRATIVE account packet
HW: Nun 9/27/11 - Review for GRAMMAR TEST: pages 61, 63, and 65. - Beginnings of NARRATIVE account (three page packet) HW: complete extra grammar sheet. One side only. Begins with "In the early morning..." 9/26/11
9/22/11 - 'Infinitives' (pages 31 & 33) - Practice page (score like a test): p. 39 - Difference between PREP. and ADV. --- p. 41 & 43 - Practice page (score like a test): p. 47
HW: page 47.
DATES to notice: Monday the 26th: Oral presentation grade proposals (100 points) Wednesday the 28th: Preposition test (100 points) 9/21/11 - Helping Verb quiz - Rough draft ORAL PRESENTATION GRADE PROPOSAL 9/19/11 ("The biker was settleded above the door.") - continue video viewing and rubric scoring - "Who Am I?" completed - Grammar concept of NOT (pages 27 & 29) - Practice page (score like a test): p. 39 - Difference between PREP. and ADV. --- p. 41 & 43 - Practice page: p. 47
HW: memorize ALL 23 helping verbs(p. 26) for QUIZ Wednesday the 21st 9/16/11 - FINAL preposition quiz - LAST oral presentations - video viewing (as explained) - Oral presentation GRADE PROPOSALS (rough draft)
- oral presentation rubric and video viewing/scoring
grade as you watch
DON'T STOP videos when they are running
DON'T SCORE between videos...keep them rolling
Partners need to 'agree' on scoring
The speaker can add up points afterward...but not in the hall
- oral presentations HW: memorize 'r' through the letter 'w' prepositions 9/14/11 - 'b-f' preposition quiz
worth 12 points (bonus if all are included)
- oral presentations HW: memorize 'i' through the letter 'p' prepositions 9/13/11 - 'a' preposition quiz
worth 10 points (bonus if all are included)
bonus: make a prep phrase for each (different objects at the end)
- oral presentations HW: memorize 'b - f' prepositions 9/12/11
- grammar p. 19 - compound objects in prep. phrases (p. 21) - compound subjects in sentences (p.25) - Oral presentation rubric - 'WHO AM I?' essays - practice speeches...then begin the REAL ones HW: memorize 'a' prepositions for quiz 9/9/11
- Grammar concept: "THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE"
- pages 13 & 17 explain it / pages 15 & 19 for practice - WHO AM I?
Your own 'personality profile'
100% confidential
full page = full credit
HW: Complete grammar pages 15 & 19 / Practice your speeches 9/8/11
- Finish interviewing - write out your speech (refer to handout) - first grammar sheet
HW: write out your speech in paragraph form (1 - 2 pages handwritten) / Complete grammar p. 9 9/7/11
PREPARING the TALK
- refer to handout
HW - write out your speech in paragraph form (1 - 2 pages handwritten)
9/6/11 & 9/7/11
INTERVIEWING
1. Write down answers to questions
2. Spend at least 30 minutes before switching
3. Make an effort to get to know your 'interviewee.'
9/6/11
TWO MINUTE BIOGRAPHY (instructions to be copied on paper and kept in binder) 1. INTERVIEW and 'unknown' classmate for interesting biographical information 2. DEVELOP good interview questions
Ask follow up questions to answers you receive. These won't be on your question list...so LISTEN to the answers.
Ask questions requiring stories or interesting details.
3. PRESENT your information in a two minute speech. 4. In groups, write as many GOOD personal interview questions as possible (group with most GOOD questions receives bonus points)
HW - List of the 35 good interview questions (leaving room for answers) 8/31/11 & 9/1/11
1. Presenting yourself and your questions to the class.
2. Rules!!! In writing, respond to the following prompts:
What typical school or classroom rules do you feel are UNNECESSARY?
Then why are they in place? Why have them at all?
Explain the difference between school and other types of rules: domestic rules, social rules, civic rules (laws), fashion rules, etc.
Why do we break rules?
Why is it necessary to have ANY rules?
3. Classroom 154 rules
8/30/11
Logistics
Attendance
Seating
Student information form
Textbook inventories
What is needed for class: binder and handouts (daily), book (when required), a writing item, effort
Activity
1. Write and be prepared to share 3 - 5 distinctive facts about yourself:
family background
your interests
a unique opinion
talents or skills
what you like/dislike
etc.
2. Ask three different classmates a question.
Any question is fine (as long as it isn’t embarrassing, too personal, about something illegal, etc.).
You can ask for volunteers to answer OR you can call on someone.
You may get more ideas for questions based on things classmates have shared about themselves.
ODYSSEY READING SCHEDULE
5/22/12
1. 20 minutes silent reading of the ODYSSEY (Adventures of Ulysses) - should be on the "Calypso" chapter p. 115
2. 20 minutes of group projects
5/18/12
1. SILENT reading of "The Cattle of the Sun" (96-105)
2. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW: "The Cattle of the Sun"
5/17/12
1. Quiz on "Circe" and "Land of the Dead"
2. TWO more stories
3. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW: “The Wandering Rocks” & “The Sirens” & “Scylla and Charybdis”
5/16/12
1. Silent reading (finish "Circe" complete "Land of the Dead")
2. ODYSSEY GROUP projects
HW - Land of the Dead
5/15/12
1. "Circe" (first half quiz)
2. Let's hear a story or two
3. Golden Ratio projects (anyone ready?)
4. ODYSSEY group/topic organization
HW: "Circe" (2nd half) 59 - 70
5/14/12
1. "Cyclops" AND "Keeper of the Winds" quizzes (only one of them will 'count')
2. Odyssey Project explanation
3. Golden Ratio projects
HW: "Circe" (1st half) 47 - 58
5/11/12
1. KEEPER OF THE WINDS (quiz...but not taking it because of STUDY ISLAND))
HW: "Cannibal Beach" (short chapter)
BE READY MONDAY FOR ULYSSES QUIZZES.
5/10/12
1. CYCLOPS' CAVE (quiz...but not taking it because of STUDY ISLAND)
2. GOLDEN projects
HW: "Keeper of the Winds" (27 - 40)
5/9/12
1. ULYSSES (The Odyssey) - "The Ciconians" and "The Lotus Eaters"
2. BEAUTY
- Is it POSSIBLE to scientifically or mathematically prove something is beautiful (pleasing to the eye or other senses)?
- Take a few minutes to read about the Golden Ratio and Golden Rectangle. Can you explain it? Fun with Golden Rectangles.
- Find the Golden Rectangles (they're already drawn in for you):
- an article on the Golden Ratios in the MONA LISA.
- EARTH AND GREEN (by Mark Rothko...one of my favorite painters...believe it or not):
3. RESEARCH
A. The Golden Ratio in ART.
B. The Golden Ratio in ARCHITECTURE.
C. The Golden Ratio in HUMANS.
D. The Golden Ratio in NATURE.
E. The Golden Ratio in MUSIC, LITERATURE, and FILMS.
F. The Fibonacci Numbers (Sequence) and their 'usefulness.'
HW: Do not forget to read about "The Cyclops’ Cave" in The Odyssey.
5/8/12
Themes in JUAN:
Art Characteristics:
THE ‘color patch,’ IMPRESSIONISM, POINTISLLISM (19th Century) - characteristics?
Manet - The Fifer
Monet - The River
Seurat - Side Show
HOMEWORK (new book): The Odyssey...aka. The Adventures of Ulysses. Follow the reading schedule.
Bonus: Compare/Contrast Monet’s The River with Seurat’s Grande Jatte.
5/4/12
1. JUAN finale.
2. Stories.
5/3/12
1. Chapter 12
2. JUAN!
Pope Innocent X
3. My picture taken with JUAN!
4. Chapter 13.
HW - finish I, Juan de Pareja!
5/2/12
1. The masterpiece of Diego Velázquez: Las Meninas (The Maids of Honor)...
Perhaps find a better version online so that you can zoom in
QUESTIONS (some things to add to your 'Art' Googledoc which we'll be coming back to):
1. What is 'happening' in this painting?
2. How is it 'Baroque'?
3. How is atypical (NOT typical) of a 'normal' portrait?
4. What makes it so complex? (Unless you think it isn't!) Consider --
2. Chapters 10 & 11
3. HW: 12 & 13
5/1/12
1. Chapters 8 & 9
2. Stories
HW: chapters 10 & 11
4/30/12
1. Chapters 6 and 7
2. Stories
HW: chapters 8 & 9
4/27/12
1. Chapters 4 and 5
2. STORY TIME
HW: chapters 6 & 7
4/26/12
1. Chapter 4 and 5 quiz tomorrow. (Chapters 4, 5, and 6 may use lap tops to prepare lessons).
2. The rest of the class: SILENT reading of I, Juan de Pareja.
4/25/12
1. Juan: Chapter 3
2. Art
Vermeer - Woman Holding a Balance
Velázquez - The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)
HW: CHAPTER 4 QUIZ
4/20/12
1. Juan: Chapter 2
2. Art
Vermeer - Woman Holding a Balance
Velázquez - The Maids of Honour (Las Meninas)
WEEKEND BONUS - Compare and contrast in a paragraph or so, two DAVIDS: Michelangelo's (Renaissance) vs. Bernini's (Baroque) Share it with mfc3067@gmail.com. Name it in the usual format: 88campbellDAVID.
4/19/12
1. Juan: Chapter 1
2. Art pieces:
THE RENAISSANCE (roughly the 1500’s) - characteristics of the ‘world view’ during this period?
Leonardo - Mona Lisa
Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel), The Pieta, David
THE BAROQUE (roughly the 1600 - 1650) - characteristics of this this period?
Caravaggio - The Calling of Saint Matthew
Rembrandt - Night Watch
Vermeer - The Letter / Woman Holding a Balance
HW: Juan, chapter 2 quiz
1. Story presentations
2. According to reading schedule you should be on CHAPTER 3 of I, Juan de Pareja.
2a. I, Juan de Pareja INTRODUCTION - Open a new GoogleDocuent and paste the following questions into it. (Use the following format: 88cashART. Don't share it yet.)
3. According to art 'experts': Characteristics of ART (also to be pasted)
4. Begin keeping a list of art pieces we view and your comments (or class members' comments)
THE RENAISSANCE (roughly the 1500’s) - characteristics of the ‘world view’ during this period?
Leonardo - Mona Lisa
Michelangelo - The Creation of Adam (Sistine Chapel), The Pieta, David
HW: I, Juan de Pareja reading schedule
1. I, Juan de Pareja teaching project explanation.
2. I, Juan de Pareja reading schedule
3. Story Presentations
HW: Juan foreward and chapter 1 (pages 3 - 16)
4/2/12 & 4/3/12 & 4/4/12
1. All stories should HAVE BEEN shared LONG AGO with mfc3067@gmail.com and should be formatted as 88shuppaGENRE.
2. Story presentations??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????
3. Easy Grammar exercise:
3/30/12
1. 15 minutes to finalize your stories.
2. Follow all instructions for formatting as described on 3/29/12.
3. Begin oral presentations of your stories.
3/29/12
1. GENRE STORIES
2. COMPLETION
3. EVALUATION - Stories will be scored in the following areas
3/28/12
1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. STORY WRITING?
2/7/12 & 2/8/12
1. Visit Study Island and earn yourselves BLUE RIBBONS on the 9th GRADE (that's right, 9th GRADE) language arts /ELA / English/ reading lessons.
2. Each 9th grade blue ribbon will be worth 10 points for your language arts grade.
3. I would have inserted the exact link, but Study Island is sort of like Fort Knox. Retrieving a password and username for a bank account (which may or may not contain money) is easier than retrieving Study Island info (through which someone might steal some multiple choice answers.) Sorry for the inconvenience, but you all know how to log on. May the ribbons be with you.
2/2/12
1. A Text Twist competition within your usual Text Twist groups. Display highest score to your teacher for academic credit.
2/1/12
1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. Perfect tenses review: complete p. 175
3. Progressive tense (p.177) is much easier to understand, but my guide explaining verb tenses might still be useful.
Complete grammar pages 179 & 181
1/27/12 & 1/30/12 & 1/31/12
1. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
2. Perfect tenses were explained on grammar p. 169
3. BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
1/26/12
BOOK TALKS
- Speakers: Be loud and clear. Call on a variety of people.
- Audience: Stay focused and write down questions.
1/25/12
1. 8th Grade Class Trip $$$
2. BOOK TALK preparation.
3. BOOK TALK PRACTICE
1/24/12
1. 12 ANGRY MEN quiz.
2. Work on writing out what will go into your BOOK TALKS. Here's the way they should sound to your audience:
3. Write out the book talk in a GoogleDoc as if it is a speech (1 - 2 pages).
HW: Complete WRITTEN version of the book talk.
1/23/12
STUDY ISLAND math.
1/20/12
STUDY ISLAND testing. If perchance you finish, look at the period 1 schedule.
1/17 - 1/19
12 ANGRY MEN
- Chart the background and personality of EACH of the 12. Are they all really angry? Why do they vote as they do?
- More and more facts about the case emerge as the film progresses; more and more details about the characters emerge also.
HW: Remember. You should be reading your novel in preparation for next week's BOOK TALKS!ALSO: Open 'note' quiz on 12 ANGRY MEN on Monday, the 23rd.
1/13/12
1. IMPROMPTU SPEECHES
2. PERFECT TENSES: A guide for you that explains verb tenses. Refer to it often...if you want to.
1/12/12
1. GRAMMAR: Review simple tenses and complete 165 and 167
2. PERFECT TENSES: A guide for you that explains verb tenses. Refer to it often...if you want to.
3. IMPROMPTU SPEECHES
1/11/12
GRAMMAR: Verb tenses = 'time' or 'when the action occurred"
IMPROMPTU TALKS (25 points)
HW: Continue reading your novel for the book talks which begin on January 23rd.
1/10/12
IMPROMPTU TALKS (25 points)
HW: Continue reading your novel for the book talks which begin on January 23rd.
1/9/12
1. Individually or in groups, attain the high score in each quiz to receive academic credit:
2. JUST ONE 10 MINUTE ROUND of Text Twist TIMED VERSION! (http://games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist-2-quick-play)
1/6/12
1. VOCAB supplementary assignment
- Locate 18 "Challenge Words" (in boxes) for Lesson 3 and 4 vocab.
- Define words
- Write a sentence that is CLEARLY about something from class or someone/something you know I know about!
- WORTH 20 points. (Many of you need it.)- Due Monday 1//9/12 (share in a GoogleDoc with mfc3067@gmail.com: 88laudonefVOCAB. Allow me editing rights.)
2. Two 10 minute rounds of Text Twist TIMED VERSION! (http://games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist-2-quick-play)
HW: VOCAB challenge words assignment as explained in #1
1/5/12
1. Vocab Test: Lessons 3 & 4 (answer all 20 questions)
2. VOCAB supplementary assignment
- Locate 18 "Challenge Words" (in boxes) for Lesson 3 and 4 vocab.
- Define words
- Write a sentence that is CLEARLY about something from class or someone/something you know I know about!
- WORTH 20 points. (Many of you need it.)- Due Monday (share in a GoogleDoc with mfc3067@gmail.com. Allow me editing rights.)
3. Text Twist: http://games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist-2-quick-play
HW: TITLE and AUTHOR of your book for the BOOK TALK
1/4/12
1. Exchange your vocab quiz with a partner (or two). Take each other's quiz without referring to the worksheets. Score it.
2. Text Twist: http://games.yahoo.com/game/text-twist-2-quick-play
HW: STUDY vocab lessons 3 and 4
1/3/12
1. Book Talk Assignment - refer to handout / Talks begin January 23rd (tentatively)
2. Vocab lessons 3 and 4 review - In a GoogleDoc, create a 10 question quiz that you will 'share' with a classmate for him/her to complete. Questions should be in the format of 'fill in the blank' sentences with various vocab words as the multiple choice answers.
HW - create vocab review quiz / Real Vocab test for you is on Thursday 1/5/12.
12/21/11
1. Colors presentations:
2. Vocab exercises 4A, 4B, and 4C
HW: "Colors" grade proposals
12/20/11
1. Grammar Test
2. Review exercises 3A, 3B, and 3C
3. Colors presentations: Grade proposals due Thursday...
12/19/11
1. Read vocab words for lesson 4 beginning on page 22 and complete exercises 4A, 4B, and 4C
2. Grammar test tomorrow:
3. Work on COLORS project - also due tomorrow
12/16/11
1. Greek and Latin Lessons 3 & 4: All or Nothing
2. Colors
HW: One page grammar test Monday:
12/15/11
1. GRADE Grammar pages 153 & 155 (too much random underlining...TEST early next week)
2. COLORS project. Do you know...
12/14/11
1. Grammar HW 149 & 151
2. Please carefully read the "COLORS" instructions distributed yesterday
HW: grammar pages 153 & 155
12/13/11
1. RESEARCH, READ, and be prepared to EXPLAIN the following groups of concepts.
- Each group will be responsible for explaining ONE of the following sets:
-----> "BEAT Generation" / "BEAT Poets" / BEATniks
-----> Sigmund Freud / "Free Association" technique / Stream of Consciousness
-----> Improvisation and "Free-Form" (in Jazz and Poetry)
-----> Word Jazz / Ken Nordine / "Colors"
2. LISTEN to sample "COLORS"
- How is or isn't each example poetic?
- What does each one mean? Or is there no meaning?
3. EXPLANATION of your "COLORS" project
- refer to the sheet to understand the guidelines / rubric.
4. HW: Grammar page 149 & 151 (ALSO label D.O. and P.N. and P.A. if you find them).
COLORS PROJECT DUE Tuesday, 12/20/11
12/12/11
1. COLORS "QUIZ"
- take the quiz (questions become increasingly difficult)
- grade them as a class
2. RESEARCH, READ, and be prepared to EXPLAIN the following groups of concepts.
- Each group will be responsible for explaining ONE of the following sets:
-----> "BEAT Generation" / "BEAT Poets" / BEATniks
-----> Sigmund Freud / "Free Association" technique / Stream of Consciousness
-----> Improvisation and "Free-Form" (in Jazz and Poetry)
-----> Word Jazz / Ken Nordine / "Colors"
3. LISTEN to sample "COLORS"
- How is or isn't each example poetic?
- What does each one mean? Or is there no meaning?
4. EXPLANATION of your "COLORS" project
- refer to the sheet to understand the guidelines / rubric.
12/9/11
1. Review yesterday's GRAMMAR.
2. Complete page 149 & 151 (ALSO label D.O. and P.N. and P.A. if you find them).
12/8/11
1. GRAMMAR: Subject-Verb agreement and p. 147
2. Click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to. We are finished as of today.
3. Bug's Life (questions INCLUDING paragraph) due FRIDAY. Share it as 88strakertBUGSLIFE. (Add BONUS jokes to this document if you've found any).
12/7/11
1. Click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to. We MAY finish today.
2. Bug's Life (questions INCLUDING paragraph) due FRIDAY. Share it as 88silvakBUGSLIFE.
12/5/11
1. Compound subjects:
- If joined by and, they're plural: Christa and Jack are friendly with each other.
- If joined by or, make the verb agree with the nearer subject
---------------> The good saxophonists or Christa is staying at East Hills.---------------> Either Christa or the good saxophonists are invited to participate in the PMEA.
2. Yes, there is an assignment that goes with A Bug's Life; click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to.
3. Pixar films are renowned for appealing to both children and adults. As a BONUS (added to you responses to the movie questions), compile a list of JOKES that you KNOW weren't aimed at younger children. There are many 'insect' jokes or jokes in the 'city scene' that are truly aimed at adults (13 years or older). See how many you can catch and list.
12/2/11
1. No grammar today, but we will finish up the read alouds.
2. Yes, of course there is an assignment that goes with it; click this Bug's Life link to view, copy, and paste the questions you are to respond to.
3. Pixar films are renowned for appealing to both children and adults. As a BONUS (added to you responses to the movie questions), compile a list of JOKES that you KNOW weren't aimed at younger children. There are many 'insect' jokes or jokes in the 'city scene' that are truly aimed at adults (13 years or older). See how many you can catch and list.
WEEKEND BONUS...Available to EVERYONE (not just Megan Eltringham): The plot of A Bug's Life is not unique. Write a paragraph that compares the storyline of this children's movie to two other films: SEVEN SAMURAI (a Japanese film by Akira Kurowawa that is known as one of the greatest films EVER made) and also THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN (an American Western film from 1960).
12/1/11
1. Subject - Verb Agreement 139
2. Read 'alouds' of your narrative masterpieces
11/30/11
1. Check all four poem questions (HW)
2. Discussion of "Willow and Ginkgo" and "Sea Lullaby"
3. Read 'alouds' of your narrative masterpieces
11/29/11
1. An extra 5% available to those authors willing to deliver a verbal reading of their stories. (But some of you have yet to submit your stories!)
2. Answer some discussion questions:
- "Simile: Willow and Ginkgo" (p. 132)
- "Sea Lullaby" (p. 128)
(These discussion questions will take a bit longer).HW: all poetry questions completed (to be checked)
11/22/11
1. An extra 5% available to those authors willing to deliver a verbal reading of their stories (beginning next week).
2.Poetry discussion of the first two poems.
HW: none (give thanks)
11/21/11
1. Stories shared with mfc3067@gmail.com in the proper format: 86eltringhammSTORY
2. Answer some discussion questions:
- "Moco Limping" (p. 127)
- "Mixed Singles" (p. 128)
(These first two poems could be completed relatively quickly.)11/18/11
1. Action vs. Linking verbs
2. In order to help us learn to read more deeply and 'in between the lines,' we will examine some poetry from the literature book and answer some discussion questions:
3. Share your stories (86eltringhammSTORY) with mfc3067@gmail.com and also with THREE other students. These students should have access to add comments, questions, and suggestions.
HW: Completed stories with peer comments in the GoogleDoc margins due Monday.
11/17/11
1. Action verbs vs. Linking verbs.
- read page 124 (forms of the verb TO BE)
- read page 125 (list of LINKING verbs....which sometimes are ACTION verbs)
- read pages 126, 127, and 131
----> Words that come after LINKING VERBS can be PREDICATE NOMINATIVES or PREDICATE ADJECTIVES.----> Words that come after ACTION VERBS can be DIRECT OBJECTS (D.O. - remember?)
2. Finish drafting your stories (yes, you are getting more time to write)
HW: a completed draft of your stories due Friday 11/18. (You WILL eventually be sharing them with three classmates for comments/suggestions)
LITERATURE BOOKS NEEDED FRIDAY
11/16/11
1. Supplemental grammar sheets: exercises 10, 7, and 13.
2. Last class day to work on your narrative accounts (stories).
HW: a completed draft of your stories due Friday 11/18.
11/15/11
1. All Spartacus essays shared?
2. Continue with grammar 'tricky verbs' from yesterday:
3. Your narrative accounts (originally based on "The Lie"...but altered, accentuated, and enhanced as you see fit) are taking shape in GoogleDocs? Title them like this: 88faulconaSTORY.
11/14/11
1. SPARTACUS essays shared with mfc3067@gmail.com
2. Tricky verbs
---> sit vs. set (p. 117)
---> rise vs. raise (p. 118)
---> lie vs. lay (p. 119) - The trickiest of the three pairs
3. Now that we have laptops we can continue with the writing assignment from WAY back in September (the 26th). Recall and reuse this narrative account document to help you continue your stories.
11/11/11 - best wishes
- Irregular verb quiz
- Direct objects (grammar 113 & 115)
- Final day for Spartacus vs. Harriet essay (see 11/1 and 11/3 for details)
- Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, including peer comments, and shared with me) due: MONDAY 11/14/11
11/10/11
1. SPARTACUS finale. (Why wouldn't Spartacus take the pirates' offer to get him out of Italy before the big battle? Why would anyone say "I'm Spartacus"?)
2. PAST PARTICIPLES have a helping verb. And just what are those helping verbs? (review p. 97 & 98)
3. DIRECT OBJECTS - receive the action of an action verb.
----> ex. Alexis shook the hand of her boxing opponent after the bout.
- complete p. 113 & 115
HW - Irregular verb form quiz tomorrow (p. 97 & 98)
11/9/11
- grammar 107 & 109
- SPARTACUS: Crassus makes a deal with Batiatus ($$$) to identify Spartacus. The stage is set for battle.
- IRREGULAR VERB quiz Friday (study pages 97 & 98)
- Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, and including peer comments) due: MONDAY 11/14/11
11/7/11
- grammar p. 105 review
- by special request: SPARTACUS film (I made some errors when I 'retold' the ending, and some of the plot may help your Spartacus/Harriet essays.
- Final essays (proofread, cleaned up, and including peer comments) due: MONDAY 11/14/11
HW tonight: grammar p. 107 and 109 (the numbers are missing so 107 ("In July...) and 109 ("The bestseller...")
GRAMMAR QUIZ coming on Friday 11/11/11: make sure you know the PAST and PAST PARTICIPLES of irregular verbs (page 97 &98)
11/4/11
- Review homework (grammar p. 103)
- Grammar p. 105
- Continue drafting SPARTACUS and HARRIET (refer to yesterday's instructions and the .pdf rubric)
How the PSSA writing rubric translates into almighty GRADES:
4 = A = 95
3 = B = 85
2 = C = 75
1 = :( = :(
11/3/11
1. Review grammar concepts CONTRACTIONS and VERB PHRASES:
- pages 85, 87, and 91
2. PRESENT TENSE vs. PAST TENSE verbs
- What's the difference?
- A similarity: NO HELPING VERBS.
3. REGULAR vs. IRREGULAR verbs (read page 94 and 95)
- 'ed' vs. a different form
- One of the wonders of verbs: they are the only kinds of words that change their form in order tell WHEN something happened. (This is an EASY way to tell if you're working with a verb
4. PAST vs. PAST PARTICIPLE (pages 97 and 98)
- no helping verb vs. 'have,' 'has,', or 'had'
5. SPARTACUS and HARRIET essays: When complete share your piece with at least TWO other classmates. Their gmail address should be easy to figure out:
6.
HW: Complete grammar pages 100 and 103
11/2/11
Past grammar sheets you should keep - 4, 13, 17, 23, 26, 27, 31, 35, 41
EASY GRAMMAR - begin verbs unit!
- page 81 & 88 (what a verb is AND the list of helping verbs)
- page 83 & 87 (contractions)
- page 89 & 91 (verb phrases)
Begin drafting SPARTACUS essay as explained on 11/1/11.
GoogleDoc format: 86jonestSPARTACUS.
(COPY AND PASTE into a GOOGLE DOC. No need to share it with me yet though.)
11/1/11
Spartacus vs. Harriet Tubman: Write an essay of 200 - 400 words that compares (same) and contrasts (different) the historical figures of Spartacus and Harriet Tubman.
- No additional research is needed beyond the film and excerpt from the red book.
- Some similarities (leader of slaves) and differences (gender, race, time period) are obvious.
- Look deeper however. Consider for example...
10/28/11
Spartacus characters (so far)
Spartacus - the main slave
Varinia - the slave girl
Batiatus - the slave trader (seems primarily interested in money)
Crassus - a patrician (which a member of the 'noble family' class in Rome and loves 'old' Rome. He's the guy who brought the people to set up the fight to the death match at Batiatus' place)
Gracchus - A senator. He is not ashamed of how 'amoral' he is. The enemy of Crassus.
10/27/11
- Harriet Tubman vs. Spartacus
- Create a chart: one column for their "Similarities" and the other for their "Differences" OR
- Use one of things with the overlapping circles
VOCAB BONUS DUE FRIDAY if interested.10/26/11
- Work on VOCAB bonus assignment explained yesterday AND/OR
- Silent reading.
10/25/11
- Quick vocab review
- VOCAB TEST LESSONS 1 & 2
- Discuss Harriet Tubman (550 - 560)
BONUS OPPORTUNITY:
- Locate 23 "Challenge Words" (in boxes) for Lesson 2 vocab
- Define words
- Write a sentence that is CLEARLY your own for each word
- WORTH 12 points added onto Vocab test.
- Due Friday 10/28 (share with mfc3067@gmail.com in a GoogleDoc. Allow me editing rights.)
ex. 86feithjVOCBONUS.
10/24/11
- Harriet Tubman completed?
- Review for vocab test
- Google account setup (example): 86alpaughw@gmail.com
HW:
- Write 10 question vocab quiz (multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank)
- If completed in GoogleDocs, share it with a classmate and also mfc3067@gmail.com
- Title it 86alpaughwVOCAB except use your name.
- Study for Greek/Latin vocab test
10/21/11
- Cunningham absent
10/20/11
- Vocab test moved to Monday
- "Harriet Tubman" (550 - 559) and accompanying 'quiz'
10/19/11
- Greek & Latin vocab: Lesson 2
- Complete exercises 2A, 2B, 2C
- "Harriet Tubman" (p. 550 - 559)
HW: Vocab test on Greek/Latin lessons 1 and 2 (FRIDAY)
10/18/11
- Wonderlic Test
- Multiple Intelligences Theory
- Greek and Latin Vocab: Lesson 2
10/14/11 & 10/17/11
- Read "Playing for Keeps" (500 - 504)
CLASS: Answer "Playing for Keeps" questions 1 - 11
HW: "What is intelligence" prompt. Answer completely and thoughtfully as possible.
10/13/11
- GROUNDHOG DAY packets submitted
- Greek and Latin Lesson #1: complete 1A, 1B, 1C
- "Playing for Keeps" (page 500) - questions 1 & 2
10/12/11
- Complete Groundhog Day film
- All questions (#1 - #15), completed, stapled submitted
- Greek and Latin (Vocab Lesson #1: Numbers)
*NOTE: 'narrative account' assignment on hold (the expectation was that we'd have laptop computers)
10/11/11
- Groundhog Day: "day 3"
HW - complete more of #6 / and also #7 through #11
10/7/11
- "page 1" of your story
- using the lit book (p. 813)...answer Groundhog Day question #5.
- Groundhog Day: "day 2"
HW: none
10/6/11
- the importance of CHARACTERIZATION in stories (including yours)
- GROUNDHOG DAY: text to film connection?
HW:
- complete 1 - 4 Groundhog Day AND
- write 1 page worth of YOUR story
10/4/11
- Independent story drafting
- Remember: CONFLICT, RISING ACTION, CLIMAX, RESOLUTION
10/3/11
- Discussion of Fairytale compenents
- Begin mapping out your own narrative
9/30/11
- grammar test scores
- Completions of LIE and FAIRYTALE "analysis"
9/28/11
- Check HW...quick review for TEST
- TAKE the 100 points test
- Begin NARRATIVE account packet
HW: Nun
9/27/11
- Review for GRAMMAR TEST: pages 61, 63, and 65.
- Beginnings of NARRATIVE account (three page packet)
HW: complete extra grammar sheet. One side only. Begins with "In the early morning..."
9/26/11
- Oral presentation grade proposals DUE.
- Grammar review: pages 59 & 61 / 63 & 65
NARRATIVE ACCOUNT (writing assignment) INTRO
1. Recall a situation from when you were small in which you were involved with some sort of lie (whether it was you, a family, or a friend).
2. Describe a person you know who seems to make a habit of lying? What types of things does he/she lie about? How does he/she react when ‘discovered’?
3. What types of things did people lie about back in elementary school compared to now?
HW: Complete Grammar review pages (59, 61, 63, 65)
9/22/11
- 'Infinitives' (pages 31 & 33)
- Practice page (score like a test): p. 39
- Difference between PREP. and ADV. --- p. 41 & 43
- Practice page (score like a test): p. 47
HW: page 47.
DATES to notice:
Monday the 26th: Oral presentation grade proposals (100 points)
Wednesday the 28th: Preposition test (100 points)
9/21/11
- Helping Verb quiz
- Rough draft ORAL PRESENTATION GRADE PROPOSAL
9/19/11
("The biker was settleded above the door.")
- continue video viewing and rubric scoring
- "Who Am I?" completed
- Grammar concept of NOT (pages 27 & 29)
- Practice page (score like a test): p. 39
- Difference between PREP. and ADV. --- p. 41 & 43
- Practice page: p. 47
HW: memorize ALL 23 helping verbs(p. 26) for QUIZ Wednesday the 21st
9/16/11
- FINAL preposition quiz
- LAST oral presentations
- video viewing (as explained)
- Oral presentation GRADE PROPOSALS (rough draft)
- 1. rough draft 2. completed rubric 3. final copy
- Due date: Monday 9/26
- Complete "Who Am I?"HW: none
9/15/11
- 'i-p' preposition quiz
- worth 10 points (bonus if all are 13 included)
- oral presentation rubric and video viewing/scoring- grade as you watch
- DON'T STOP videos when they are running
- DON'T SCORE between videos...keep them rolling
- Partners need to 'agree' on scoring
- The speaker can add up points afterward...but not in the hall
- oral presentationsHW: memorize 'r' through the letter 'w' prepositions
9/14/11
- 'b-f' preposition quiz
- worth 12 points (bonus if all are included)
- oral presentationsHW: memorize 'i' through the letter 'p' prepositions
9/13/11
- 'a' preposition quiz
- worth 10 points (bonus if all are included)
- bonus: make a prep phrase for each (different objects at the end)
- oral presentationsHW: memorize 'b - f' prepositions
9/12/11
- grammar p. 19
- compound objects in prep. phrases (p. 21)
- compound subjects in sentences (p.25)
- Oral presentation rubric
- 'WHO AM I?' essays
- practice speeches...then begin the REAL ones
HW: memorize 'a' prepositions for quiz
9/9/11
- Grammar concept: "THE PREPOSITIONAL PHRASE"
- pages 13 & 17 explain it / pages 15 & 19 for practice
- WHO AM I?
- Your own 'personality profile'
- 100% confidential
- full page = full credit
HW: Complete grammar pages 15 & 19 / Practice your speeches9/8/11
- Finish interviewing
- write out your speech (refer to handout)
- first grammar sheet
HW: write out your speech in paragraph form (1 - 2 pages handwritten)
/ Complete grammar p. 9
9/7/11
PREPARING the TALK
- refer to handout
HW - write out your speech in paragraph form (1 - 2 pages handwritten)
9/6/11 & 9/7/11
INTERVIEWING
1. Write down answers to questions
2. Spend at least 30 minutes before switching
3. Make an effort to get to know your 'interviewee.'
9/6/11
TWO MINUTE BIOGRAPHY (instructions to be copied on paper and kept in binder)
1. INTERVIEW and 'unknown' classmate for interesting biographical information
2. DEVELOP good interview questions
- Avoid 'yes'/'no' questions; ask open-ended questions
- Ask follow up questions to answers you receive. These won't be on your question list...so LISTEN to the answers.
- Ask questions requiring stories or interesting details.
3. PRESENT your information in a two minute speech.4. In groups, write as many GOOD personal interview questions as possible (group with most GOOD questions receives bonus points)
HW - List of the 35 good interview questions (leaving room for answers)
8/31/11 & 9/1/11
1. Presenting yourself and your questions to the class.
2. Rules!!! In writing, respond to the following prompts:
3. Classroom 154 rules
8/30/11
Logistics
Activity
1. Write and be prepared to share 3 - 5 distinctive facts about yourself:
2. Ask three different classmates a question.
HW: Student information form / 3 ring binder